We get caught up in the NHL, and even to a degree, the hype and pressures of the OHL.

We see awful parents yelling and screaming at their kids, terrible coaches screaming and yelling at their opponents, and ridiculous players trying to hurt each other rather than focus on the game itself.

We lose sight of the meaning of the game, why we love it so much, why it was fun to begin with, when we're told it's a business at a professional level, it's a competition at an amateur level, and it's a vent of frustration in beer leagues.

This is the video that you've probably seen. It's been making its way through Facebook, Twitter, and any other social media site. Just as we buckle down for playoffs in the OHL, and then the playoff push in the NHL...along with finishing up our beer leagues, it never hurts to ...

I'm in the minority, in that I celebrate St. Patrick's Day, and don't really want to get drunk anymore.

The celebration is supposed to be of a Saint, that helped bring Catholicism to Ireland. The Celebration is supposed to be for a man that, in the minds of many Irish, saved their souls. The stories around him are rich with folklore, and hyperbole, befitting of a saint.

Somehow we have turned what he did, and what meant to Ireland, in to a drunken stereotype of what we think people in Ireland are doing.

It's been annoying to me for years that at a time that we are supposed to celebrate Irish culture and heritage, we have a bunch of people say, "I'm Irish", and dart off for a draught somewhere thinking that's "Irish". The embarassment on Fleming Drive last year only heightened how far we have come from the true ...

Stompin’ Tom’s death is one of those weird points in history that unites, and separates people. 

Consider, if you will, this is the music’s version, of Jack Layton dying.

Remember when he passed how we were all united in how we felt. I didn’t hear one person say an ill word about him. The Prime Minister even breaking protocol with honoring him, and most of us recognized he helped Canadian politics, even if we didn’t line up with the New Democrat ideals.

Most of us are greatly saddened by Stompin’ Tom’s death, even though, many of us couldn’t tell you the last time that we bought one of his CD’s or even are familiar with his music outside a hockey game, and maybe a smattering of others we accidentally came across in our parent’s record albums.

But the life (and death) of Stompin’ Tom should be considered one of the ...

Can I admit something to you?

I watched the movie Pitch Perfect...one of the girliest movies I have ever heard of.  

Here was the pitch to me from my wife, "It's awesome. It's hilarious. It's about a group of accapella singers in University, and girl's team brings in this rogue singer, but she's also kinda got this thing going on with a rival boys' group".

You'll forgive me for not getting too excited...

I sucked it up and watched it, and it's RIGHT in there with my new favourite genre of comedies, chick flicks for guys. The formula of "guy has girl, guy loses girl (or girl loses guy), but they still like each other, seems like they'll never get together, but then finally do" is still there, but intermingled with jokes for guys.

Poop jokes, fart jokes (yes...fart jokes will always be funny for guys), sexual references, and ...

There is a new word that we will have to start becoming familiar with in sports.  Are you ready for this?  It’s called Toradol. 

The fact is that it is not illegal, in most sports…but that hasn’t stopped the moral debate about the use of it (kind of like how it’s LEGAL to spit on the sidewalk, but makes you look like a slummy if you do).

It’s a painkiller, and there’s no way that an athlete would be expected to go without it.  The problem is that it is being completely misused. 

Jonathan Papelbon is saying that while he was with the Boston Red Sox, it was common for pitchers to be injected with it, to help the inflammation in their arms.  So where’s the misuse? 

Well the problem is that although it’s great for managing pain relief, too many players are using them just before game time, to ...